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Notes:
I found this specimen of what appears to be some sort of lactarius mushroom growing in a hardwood forrest. The cap in concave with concetric yellow ocher rings. The under side of the cap has gills. The stipe has a thick stocky appearance rather short in compaison to the cap, stipe color is an off white hue.

Comments

Kate there are many medicinal mushrooms out there especially polypores but lactarius has some good anti viral properties and anti cancer proprieties, In L subvellereus has what is known as sesquiterpene lactones in them they are good anti virals anti cancer fighting agents. if you want to be fascinated here’s a link that you might find very interesting and change the way you look at fungi. http://healing-mushroom.net have fun